Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context
Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context

Author: Eileen F. Babbitt

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2009-09-09

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0815651244

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Preventing sweeping human rights violations or wars and rebuilding societies in their aftermath require an approach encompassing the perspectives of both human rights advocates and practitioners of conflict resolution. While these two groups work to achieve many of the same goals—notably to end violence and loss of life—they often make different assumptions, apply different methods, and operate under different values and institutional constraints. As a result, they may adopt conflicting or even mutually exclusive approaches to the same problem. Eileen F. Babbitt and Ellen L. Lutz have collected groundbreaking essays exploring the relationship between human rights and conflict resolution. Employing a case study approach, the contributing authors examine three areas of conflict—Sierra Leone, Colombia, and Northern Ireland—from the perspectives of participants in both the peace-making and human rights efforts in each country. By spotlighting the role of activists and reflecting on what was learned in these cases, this volume seeks to push scholars and practitioners of both conflict resolution and human rights to think more creatively about the intersection of these two fields.

Human Rights as War by Other Means
Human Rights as War by Other Means

Author: Jennifer Curtis

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0812246195

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Combining firsthand ethnographic reportage with historical research, Human Rights as War by Other Means traces the use of rights discourse in Northern Ireland's politics from the local civil rights campaigns of the 1960s to present-day activism for truth recovery and LGBT equality.

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

Author: Marc Mulholland

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0198825005

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Since the plantation of Ulster in the 17th century, Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. This text explores the pivotal moments in this history.

The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain
The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain

Author: Graham Dawson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 152610850X

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This ground-breaking book provides the first comprehensive investigation of the history and memory of the Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain. It examines the impacts of the conflict upon individual lives, political and social relationships, communities and culture in Britain, and explores how the people of Britain (including its Irish communities) have responded to, and engaged with the conflict, in the context of contested political narratives produced by the State and its opponents. Setting an agenda for further research and public debate, the book demonstrates that 'unfinished business' from the conflicted past persists unaddressed in Britain, and advocates the importance of acknowledging legacies, understanding histories and engaging with memories in the context of peace-building and reconciliation.

Human Rights and the Northern Ireland Conflict
Human Rights and the Northern Ireland Conflict

Author: Omar Grech

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-09

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1351785486

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This interdisciplinary book explores the Northern Ireland conflict through a human rights framework. The book examines the conflict from the creation of the Northern Ireland state in 1921 to 2014. This timeframe allows an analysis of how human rights impacted upon the conflict in its broadest understanding (i.e. the pre-violent conflict, the violent conflict and the post-violent conflict phases). Furthermore, it allows for a better understanding of how the various stages of the conflict impacted upon how human rights are understood in Northern Ireland today. The study’s main findings are that: (i) human rights had a significant impact on the development of the conflict; (ii) human rights violations were both underlying causes and direct causes of the descent into violence; (iii) the conflict coloured the view of human rights held by the main political actors; and (iv) human rights continue to be partially understood through the prism of the conflict. More generally, this interdisciplinary work explores the relationship between law, politics and conflict. This book will be of much interest to students of human rights, conflict resolution, British politics, law and security studies.

The Northern Ireland Conflict
The Northern Ireland Conflict

Author: John McGarry

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2004-03-18

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0191532878

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This book collects some of the major essays, past and new, of two of the leading authorities on the Northern Ireland conflict. It is unified by the theory of consociation, one of the most influential theories in the regulation of conflicts. The authors are critical exponents of the approach, and several chapters explain its attractions over alternative forms of conflict regulation. The book explains why Northern Ireland's national divisions have made the achievement of a consociational agreement particularly difficult. The issues raised in the book are crucial to a proper understanding of Northern Ireland's past and future, which, the authors argue, is likely to involve some type of consociational democracy, whether or not the one agreed to on Good Friday ..... The issues addressed are not particular to Northern Ireland. They are relevant to a host of other divided territories, including Cyprus, Kosovo, Macedonia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Afghanistan. The book is therefore vital reading not just for Northern Ireland specialists, but also for anyone interested in consociation and in the just and durable regulation of national and ethnic conflict.

Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland

Author: Lee A. Smithey

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0195395875

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Lee Smithey examines how symbolic cultural expressions in Northern Ireland, such as parades, bonfires, murals, and commemorations, provide opportunities for Protestant unionists and loyalists to reconstruct their collective identities and participate in conflict transformation.

Brutality in an Age of Human Rights
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights

Author: Brian Drohan

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-01-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1501714678

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Introduction : counterinsurgency and human rights in the post-1945 world -- A lawyers' war : emergency legislation and the Cyprus Bar Council -- The shadow of Strasbourg : international advocacy and Britain's response -- Hunger war : humanitarian rights and the Radfan campaign -- This unhappy affair : investigating torture in Aden -- A more talkative place : Northern Ireland

Human Rights and Conflict
Human Rights and Conflict

Author: Julie Mertus

Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9781929223770

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'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.